Canadian Special Forces sniper breaks world record in Iraq.

Definitive proof the Earth is flat.

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Agreed, the curve has been debunked three ways from Sunday. The Illuminati have infiltrated the Sherdog mod squad and are going to get me banned lol. Too late the truth is already out.
 
can't wait to see snipers doing a "dude perfect" youtube channel style.

shooting, waiting 10 seconds, looking at goat fucker dropping down, screaming "yeeeahh" and showing slow mo of his head exploding

 
3,540 meters.. That's seriously fucking insane. For reference, that's farther than you can sling an HE 60mm mortar or fire the M2 .50 cal at maximum effective range. He literally had to lob that round to hit his target. I know he had a crazy high power scope, but even at that range the target had to be basically a spec in the glass.

The only thing I'm wondering is if he had taken prior shots at that distance from the same target area and dialed it in, or if he just happened to nail that guy on his first shot. I think it would be highly unlikely and incredible for someone to manage that on a single shot.

Yeah, I was thinking there's no way he didn't at least walk it in.
 
JTF-2...they like it up close and personal to...

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No, Simo Hayha was most impressive, and no scope.

Contrary to the propaganda the top sniper of WW2/related conflicts was Senior Sergeant Nikolai Pavlovich Okhlopkov, a Yakut hunter in the Soviet Army. Heyha is very overrated.

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Top sniper of WW1 was a Canadian Red Indian hunter too.
 
LOL, this fucking thread, man! The Canadian sniper got his well-deserved ovation from the international crowd, who did not forget to knees Trudeau in the groin on their way out :D

3,540 meters = 2.2 miles. Somebody need to get started on a "Canadian Sniper" screenplay and send it over to Mr. Eastwood ASAP.
 
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How Canada’s small military produced deadly, record-breaking snipers
By Derek Hawkins | June 23, 2017



Canada is not known, at least not in popular culture, for its military might. Fewer than 70,000 active soldiers serve in the country’s armed forces, whose size and strength have been mocked over the years by American and Canadian commentators alike. The United States, by comparison, has about half a million active soldiers in the Army alone, and hundreds of thousands more across the other branches. By American standards, Canada’s roughly $20 billion defense budget is minuscule.

But don’t let those numbers fool you.

Despite its small size, Canada is known for producing well-trained, highly skilled soldiers, who have long fought alongside American and British counterparts in major world conflicts, including the current fight against Islamic State militants.

In particular, Canada boasts some of the best snipers of any military, and the world may very well have gotten another reminder of that this week.

On Thursday, the country’s military said that a Canadian Special Operations sniper had shot an Islamic State fighter in Iraq from more than two miles away, purportedly breaking a world record for the longest confirmed kill shot in history, according to the Globe and Mail.

An unidentified sniper from the elite Joint Task Force 2 made the shot from a distance of 3,540 meters using a U.S.-made McMillan Tac-50 rifle, according to the Globe and Mail. The Canadian government’s statement about the shot provided no details about the operation, nor did it say whether the human target was killed, as The Washington Post reported. But the Globe and Mail cited anonymous military sources saying that the fatal shot, made from a high-rise building during an operation in Iraq, was independently verified by video and other data.

The Post’s Thomas Gibbons-Neff described the extreme difficulty of hitting an enemy combatant at such a distance, let alone fatally wounding one:

For the soldier to hit his target 3,540 meters (3,871 yards) he would need to account for every atmospheric factor available. Wind speed, temperature, barometric pressure, the bullets yaw and the rotation of the earth would all need to be considered before pulling the trigger. These variables, once harnessed from devices such as a handheld weather meter and potentially range-finding equipment on the gun, would then be processed through a ballistic calculator that would let the shooter make the necessary adjustments on the rifle’s scope.

If all that went according to plan and the insurgent was indeed killed, the Canadian sniper’s shot shatters the previous world record, held by a British soldier, by a staggering 1,065 meters.

It also fits a long tradition of expert marksmanship among Canadian soldiers.

During World War I, Canadian snipers were celebrated for their deadly accuracy on the battlefield. Among the legends is the late Francis Pegahmagabow, a Native Canadian sniper from Ontario who fought in Europe with the Canadian Expeditionary Force from 1914 to 1918. He was credited with 378 kills before he was discharged the following year, and as of 2014 he remained the most decorated Native Canadian soldier in the country’s history, according to Canadian Broadcasting Corp. News.

“Canadian snipers were arguably the best-equipped Allied soldiers in the early year of the war,” wrote military historian Martin Pegler in a 2011 history of sharpshooters. He called Pegahmagabow “arguably the finest sniper Canada fielded.”

“Most of the finest Canadian snipers proved to be Natives, whose backwoods skills, patience and acute eyesight made them ideally suited to the task,” Pegler wrote. “Canadian soldiers provided some of the best snipers of the war. Their kill rate was extraordinary.”

Outdoorsmen played a big role among the Canadian military’s snipers, according to Maj. Jim McKillip, a historian with the Canadian Forces department of history and heritage. Many British soldiers came from urban backgrounds, he told the Globe and Mail in 2014, whereas Canada had an abundance of farmers, hunters and trappers.

“People realized pretty quickly that sniping was more. It was shooting and hunting combined — the skills of camouflage and concealment,” he said. “The kind of hunting that you do to hunt animals at close range were the same sort of skills for concealing yourself from the enemy.”

That experience carried into World War II, said Mark Zuehlke, author of a dozen books on Canada’s military history. One of Canada’s most iconic photos from the war shows Sgt. Harold A. Marshall, a sniper from the Calgary Highlanders, posing with his rifle.

“The best snipers were usually country boys who knew how to hunt,” Zuehlke told Canadian Broadcasting Corp. News. “They knew how to handle a gun and handle a gun well.”

If Thursday’s account of the Canadian sniper’s fatal shot is true, Canadian soldiers hold three spots in the top five longest recorded sniper kills.

It’s a morbid list, to be sure. There are human beings on both sides of those mind-bogglingly long and complicated shots. War is not a video game, and no soldier tasked with such a grave responsibility takes up a rifle seeking to break a record.

But records do get broken, and a degree of bragging does take place.

In 2002, Canadian Master Cpl. Arron Perry shot and killed an Afghan insurgent from 2,310 meters, resetting the bar for a confirmed kill. Just weeks later, during the same operation, Canadian Cpl. Rob Furlong killed an insurgent at 2,430 meters. That record held until 2009, when British Corporal of Horse Craig Harrison shot and killed a Taliban gunner from 2,475 meters, according to the Globe and Mail.

After the 3,540-meter shot was reported Thursday, some expressed skepticism. The Post quoted a former Marine sniper saying an array of systems likely helped make the shot, such as a spotter with an advanced optical device or an overhead drone. He said the shot was “possible” but extraordinarily tough.

Furlong, now a marksmanship instructor, told the magazine Maclean’s on Thursday that sniping had been taken to a “different level.” Canadian snipers excelled, he said, because they were trained to run complex operations and learn command-type thinking beyond their current rank.

“I’ve been saying this forever,” he told Maclean’s. “Canadian snipers are the best in the world. The sniper training program has been around for a long time. It’s the foundation, and it’s been retooled from lessons learned in Afghanistan. We’ve built it to be the best.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...tary-produced-deadly-record-breaking-snipers/
 
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I hope he yelled "stiiirike" like a bowling Al Bundy before it even hit.
 
This shouldn't be much of a surprise. Out of the top 5 longest confirmed kills Canadians hold 1st, 3rd, and 4th, with the UK coming in 2nd, and the US coming in 5th. We have an excellent sniper school here, and JTF2 is an elite group of soldiers. We have some very well trained soldiers. We may not have the toys that the US does, but man 2 man the Canadian soldiers are some of the best trained in the world.

That shipment of Big Macs we sent to you guys were made in the USA, so at least your snipers do have the same toys as our boys for a long time now :)

Previous Canadian sniping record set with a Tac-50 in Afghanistan:

 
Good shooting.

We will take as many "enemy wins" like this as we can get.
 
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A picture is worth 3450 words. Seeing the distance represented on a map really gives you an idea of how epic this shot was.
 
What a mind fuck that would be --- wouldn't even hear the shot -- just seeing you mate exploding from a .50 cal
 
That's the first bit of news involving Canada that isn't so goddamn embarrassing in what seems like ages. Good for him.

...and now, we are back to the regular scheduled program of righteous outrage over things that should be celebrated with national pride:


Tom Mulcair raises red flags after Canadian sniper breaks record in Iraq
NDP leader says MPs should hold a debate if Canadian troops are to be involved in combat role in Iraq

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NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is foregoing the celebration and raising red flags following reports that a Canadian sniper in Iraq shattered the world record for the longest confirmed kill.

In a letter Friday to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mulcair said the incident "seriously calls into question your government's claim that Canadian forces are not involved in direct combat in Iraq."

National Defence says the sniper is part of the Joint Task Force 2 special forces unit and was supporting Iraqi forces in their fight against the ISIS when he shot an enemy fighter from 3,540 metres away.

That is more than a kilometre farther than the previous record, held by a British sniper who shot a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan in 2009.

Officials have refused to provide any other details about the incident, including where and when it occurred, citing operational security. But they maintain that the soldier was operating within the established limits of Canada's so-called "advise and assist" mission in Iraq.

Those limits, however, have been repeatedly questioned over the course of the nearly four-year mission, with much of the debate revolving around whether Canadian soldiers are engaged in combat.

Questions over role

While news of the shot has spread like wildfire, prompting accolades and even disbelief from current and former military personnel around the world, Mulcair demanded Trudeau provide answers about the mission in Iraq.

"Will you now confirm that Canadian troops have engaged in ground combat since your government took office?" he wrote.

"Why have you not declared that the current military operation is now a combat mission? Why has there been no debate in the House of Commons regarding this change of mission?"

Opposition parties have repeatedly accused the Liberals of misleading the public about the nature of Canada's mission in Iraq by claiming that Canadian troops are not in combat.

That includes revelations three years ago that Canadian troops were calling in airstrikes on ISIS targets, and last November when it was revealed they could shoot in situations other than self-defence.

But National Defence spokesman Daniel Le Bouthillier stood by past assertions Friday that Canadian soldiers are not engaged in combat in Iraq, despite the record-breaking shot.

"Members of the Canadian Special Operations Task Force do not accompany leading combat elements, but enable the Iraqi security forces who are in a tough combat mission," he said.

"This takes the form of advice in planning for their operations and assistance to defeat (ISIS) through the use of coalition resources."

The latest controversy comes as the clock ticks down on the current mission in Iraq, whose mandate is set to expire next week.

The Liberals have said Canada will maintain a presence in Iraq and the fight against ISIS, though officials say no decision has been made on whether to extend the current mission or change it.

Canada has about 200 special forces operating in northern Iraq, including inside Mosul, supported by a combat hospital, a helicopter detachment, a military surveillance plane and an air-to-air refuelling aircraft.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/sniper-iraq-combat-mission-mulcair-1.4175799
 
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Tom Mulcair raises red flags after Canadian sniper breaks record in Iraq
NDP leader says MPs should hold a debate if Canadian troops are to be involved in combat role in Iraq

softwood-lumber-20170425.jpg

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is foregoing the celebration and raising red flags following reports that a Canadian sniper in Iraq shattered the world record for the longest confirmed kill.

In a letter Friday to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mulcair said the incident "seriously calls into question your government's claim that Canadian forces are not involved in direct combat in Iraq."

National Defence says the sniper is part of the Joint Task Force 2 special forces unit and was supporting Iraqi forces in their fight against the ISIS when he shot an enemy fighter from 3,540 metres away.

That is more than a kilometre farther than the previous record, held by a British sniper who shot a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan in 2009.

Officials have refused to provide any other details about the incident, including where and when it occurred, citing operational security. But they maintain that the soldier was operating within the established limits of Canada's so-called "advise and assist" mission in Iraq.

Those limits, however, have been repeatedly questioned over the course of the nearly four-year mission, with much of the debate revolving around whether Canadian soldiers are engaged in combat.

Questions over role

While news of the shot has spread like wildfire, prompting accolades and even disbelief from current and former military personnel around the world, Mulcair demanded Trudeau provide answers about the mission in Iraq.

"Will you now confirm that Canadian troops have engaged in ground combat since your government took office?" he wrote.

"Why have you not declared that the current military operation is now a combat mission? Why has there been no debate in the House of Commons regarding this change of mission?"

Opposition parties have repeatedly accused the Liberals of misleading the public about the nature of Canada's mission in Iraq by claiming that Canadian troops are not in combat.

That includes revelations three years ago that Canadian troops were calling in airstrikes on ISIS targets, and last November when it was revealed they could shoot in situations other than self-defence.

But National Defence spokesman Daniel Le Bouthillier stood by past assertions Friday that Canadian soldiers are not engaged in combat in Iraq, despite the record-breaking shot.

"Members of the Canadian Special Operations Task Force do not accompany leading combat elements, but enable the Iraqi security forces who are in a tough combat mission," he said.

"This takes the form of advice in planning for their operations and assistance to defeat (ISIS) through the use of coalition resources."

The latest controversy comes as the clock ticks down on the current mission in Iraq, whose mandate is set to expire next week.

The Liberals have said Canada will maintain a presence in Iraq and the fight against ISIS, though officials say no decision has been made on whether to extend the current mission or change it.

Canada has about 200 special forces operating in northern Iraq, including inside Mosul, supported by a combat hospital, a helicopter detachment, a military surveillance plane and an air-to-air refuelling aircraft.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/sniper-iraq-combat-mission-mulcair-1.4175799

"In a letter Friday to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau..."

Everyone knows how Trudeau will respond. It will be a vague non-answer criticizing the previous government with talk about bringing Canadians together, helping the middle class, bringing Canada up to the current year and transparency. There will be a lot of 'uhhs' thrown in.
 
Our foreign policy and our domestic policy are so at odds nowadays it's actually hilarious.
 
can't wait to see snipers doing a "dude perfect" youtube channel style.

shooting, waiting 10 seconds, looking at goat fucker dropping down, screaming "yeeeahh" and showing slow mo of his head exploding


Would watch
 
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